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OK. Sure. Rather than assigning motive, you might be more warmly received if you just take people at their word. Sometimes people choose to bless instead of returning insults.
I've lived in the South all my life. I've heard people say "Bless Your Heart" more times than there are members on City-Data. Anyone actually being "blessed" would hear different words.
Anyone living in Tennessee, Alabama, or other deep south states knows this too.
I've lived in the South all my life. I've heard people say "Bless Your Heart" more times than there are members on City-Data. Anyone actually being "blessed" would hear different words.
Anyone living in Tennessee, Alabama, or other deep south states knows this too.
Again....you're the one that has lectured many on taking anyone that calls themselves a Christian at their word. It'd be nice if you'd extend the same courtesy to other people to simply take them at their word.
I've lived in the South all my life. I've heard people say "Bless Your Heart" more times than there are members on City-Data. Anyone actually being "blessed" would hear different words.
Anyone living in Tennessee, Alabama, or other deep south states knows this too.
I'm trying to understand what the two of you are explaining, but I too use the word fairly often, like when people sneeze. "Bless you!"
He (and others) assume insult when I say "Bless your heart" to them. They assume my motive for making such a statement. That's not very nice.
Many people are all too often not very nice in this forum, but I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it if I were you...
Focus on what matters to you, ignore the rest, like we are all forced to do in so many ways on our life's journey. Helps to avoid unnecessary heartburn.
But God exists. He called himself by many names in the Bible, but not Allah.
How do you know that the Trinity is the true God and that Allah is a false god? What if it’s the other way around?
1.6 billion Muslims believe that the Christian (i.e. Trinitarian) God doesn’t exist; they believe that the Christian God is a false god. In fact, one of the greatest sins in Islam is assigning partners to Allah or in any way compromising his Oneness. So by worshipping the Trinity, you are incurring Allah’s righteous wrath. Islam has a hell for those who worship false gods, just like (conservative) Christianity does.
How do you know that the Trinity is the true God and that Allah is a false god? What if it’s the other way around?
1.6 billion Muslims believe that the Christian (i.e. Trinitarian) God doesn’t exist; they believe that the Christian God is a false god. In fact, one of the greatest sins in Islam is assigning partners to Allah or in any way compromising his Oneness. So by worshipping the Trinity, you are incurring Allah’s righteous wrath. Islam has a hell for those who worship false gods, just like (conservative) Christianity does.
"Allah" is simply the Arabic word for "God." Nothing more. Nothing less.
"Allah" is simply the Arabic word for "God." Nothing more. Nothing less.
Not true. It's a personal name. Notice the capital "A"? It's interesting that when we speak of Islam, we use the name "Allah" instead of another name for God....like say...."Jesus". Try telling a Muslim that he can call his god "Jesus". See how that works out.
How do you know that the Trinity is the true God and that Allah is a false god? What if it’s the other way around?
1.6 billion Muslims believe that the Christian (i.e. Trinitarian) God doesn’t exist; they believe that the Christian God is a false god. In fact, one of the greatest sins in Islam is assigning partners to Allah or in any way compromising his Oneness. So by worshipping the Trinity, you are incurring Allah’s righteous wrath. Islam has a hell for those who worship false gods, just like (conservative) Christianity does.
Yep, and even some branches of Islam, like Shiite, are regarded as "polytheistic", who could forget this?:
How do you know that the Trinity is the true God and that Allah is a false god? What if it’s the other way around?
1.6 billion Muslims believe that the Christian (i.e. Trinitarian) God doesn’t exist; they believe that the Christian God is a false god. In fact, one of the greatest sins in Islam is assigning partners to Allah or in any way compromising his Oneness. So by worshipping the Trinity, you are incurring Allah’s righteous wrath. Islam has a hell for those who worship false gods, just like (conservative) Christianity does.
Because God has revealed it in his inspired Word. And yes--I'm quite ok with them thinking I believe in a false deity.
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